Tree Service in Glencoe, MN

Tree work in Glencoe

Glencoe is the McLeod County seat, sitting in open farm country south of Hutchinson, and the tree work reflects that. The town has an established residential grid with mature trees planted tight to houses on lots that are not generous, so removals here are frequently technical despite the town being small. We took an oak out beside a house here that was growing a few feet off the wall on ground held up by a low block retaining wall, with the canopy across the roofline, and the wall was as much of a constraint as the house because it takes point loads badly. Outside town it is farmland, which means shelterbelts, fence lines, field edges and farmstead yard trees, where the grapple truck can drive right up and the price drops accordingly.

Our shop is at 225 Cokato St E in Cokato, roughly 30 miles away. We do not have an office in Glencoe and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What that distance actually buys you is that we are close enough to come and look at the tree properly rather than quoting it off a photo and hoping.

Tree Removal in Glencoe

In-town Glencoe removals tend to need rigging because of how close the older houses and their trees sit. Farm work outside town is the opposite.

Removal is the biggest part of what we do, and the jobs people call about are usually the awkward ones. If there is no room to drop it, see hazardous tree removal. If it is an ash, ash removal covers the treat-or-remove decision. And if you want a number before anyone comes out, the instant estimate takes about a minute.

A job we did in Glencoe

The tree stood within a few feet of the wall of the house, on ground held up by a low block retaining wall, with the canopy leaning across the roofline. The retaining wall was the complication as much as the house: it takes point loads badly, so nothing heavy could be allowed to land on it or be driven over the ground above it.

Read how we handled it.

What we do in Glencoe

• Tree Removal: Backyard trees through to hazardous removals that need rigging, a lift, or the grapple truck. If it is leaning over the house, start here.
• Hazardous Removal: The removals with no room to drop. Trees over houses, power drops and tight yards, taken down in sections on ropes.
• Ash Removal: Emerald ash borer is working through the ash in Wright and Meeker counties. Dead ash gets brittle fast, and waiting makes the job harder.
• Emergency Service: Storm damage, split trunks and trees on structures. The phone gets answered and someone comes to look.
• Storm Cleanup: After the immediate danger is handled: hangers, broken tops, fence lines and the wood that is still lying where it landed.
• Tree Trimming: Clearance, crown thinning and structural pruning, timed around the oak wilt window and cut to the collar.
• Stump Grinding: Ground below grade so you can mow, replant, or rework the bed. Chips left or hauled, your call.
• Land & Lot Clearing: Building sites, fence lines, buckthorn and acreage that has grown in. Selective where it should be.
• Emerald Ash Borer: Trunk injection on a two year cycle for the ash worth keeping, and a straight answer about the ones that are not.